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It Gives Me Great Pleasure and It Gives Me Further Pleasure: Production Guide and Chairman's Handbook for Old Time Music Hall

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2 volumes together

It Gives Me Great Pleasure: Production Guide and Chairman's Handbook for Old Time Music Hall (Acting Edition) Guide for presenting an English Music Hall show. This book is just what is needed to enable someone to competently run an English Music Hall performance. Being the Chairman (MC) is the most important part of the show, and this book tells everything that an aspiring Chairman needs to do the job. We put a show on l. "A Good Music Hall 'Cook Book'" according to Neil W Richards. A great guide for anyone wishing to set up and run a Music Hall show.

ANDIt Gives Me Further Pleasure: Further Ruminations Upon the Art of the Music Hall ChairmanThis text represents the distillation of over 30 years experience as a music hall chairman. It provides both a source book for music hall chairmen and an historical insight into the genre, as well as over 600 song titles of the period given, together with their lyricists, composers, dates of first performance or publication and the artists who made them famous. Introductions and back announcements are given for each - some straightforward, some funny and some downright saucy! Whether researching for a music hall evening, or reading purely "for pleasure", this volume should make informative and amusing reading.

No inscriptions in either book.

Item details

Author(s):

Michael Kilgariff

Condition:

Used: very good

Dimensions:

135 mm x 215 mm 480 g

Edition:

1986 and 1996

Format:

Paperback

ISBN-10:

057309036X

ISBN-13:

9780573090363 and 9780573190070

Number of pages:

0

Publisher:

Samuel French LTD

Title:

It Gives Me Great Pleasure: Production Guide and Chairman's Handbook for Old Time Music Hall

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2 volumes together

It Gives Me Great Pleasure: Production Guide and Chairman's Handbook for Old Time Music Hall (Acting Edition) Guide for presenting an English Music Hall show. This book is just what is needed to enable someone to competently run an English Music Hall performance. Being the Chairman (MC) is the most important part of the show, and this book tells everything that an aspiring Chairman needs to do the job. We put a show on l. "A Good Music Hall 'Cook Book'" according to Neil W Richards. A great guide for anyone wishing to set up and run a Music Hall show.

ANDIt Gives Me Further Pleasure: Further Ruminations Upon the Art of the Music Hall ChairmanThis text represents the distillation of over 30 years experience as a music hall chairman. It provides both a source book for music hall chairmen and an historical insight into the genre, as well as over 600 song titles of the period given, together with their lyricists, composers, dates of first performance or publication and the artists who made them famous. Introductions and back announcements are given for each - some straightforward, some funny and some downright saucy! Whether researching for a music hall evening, or reading purely "for pleasure", this volume should make informative and amusing reading.

No inscriptions in either book.

Author(s):

Michael Kilgariff

Condition:

Used: very good

Dimensions:

135 mm x 215 mm 480 g

Edition:

1986 and 1996

Format:

Paperback

ISBN-10:

057309036X

ISBN-13:

9780573090363 and 9780573190070

Number of pages:

0

Publisher:

Samuel French LTD

Title:

It Gives Me Great Pleasure: Production Guide and Chairman's Handbook for Old Time Music Hall

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